General Guidelines for Lens Surgery at Pediatric Age

Timing is everything in congenital cataract treatment. Timely surgery, refractive correction, and amblyopia management are the critical aspects to minimize vision loss and maximize vision gain in childhood cataract management. Individualized surgical design, minimal invasive technique, proper intraocular lens selection, and reduction of complications are important intraoperative considerations. Postoperative care and long-term visual rehabilitation are important follow up to surgery to achieve best visual outcomes. Understanding “critical periods” of developmental biology for vision, as understood from experimental basic science, is essential in the management off treatable and preventable vision, loss diseases in children.